Elkhart County police say they have caught the man responsible for nearly two dozen home burglaries. Eighteen-year-old Chad Weddle was arrested Tuesday. He already faces charges in seven home break-ins. Police say he is believed to be responsible for at least 22 break-ins in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties. Clint Clark lives in a neighborhood just outside of Middlebury , near one of the homes that were burglarized. "I was actually home at the time of the robbery," Clark said, "and so I got to talk to one of the police officers and it just made me a lot more aware of what's going on and my surroundings.

Following are some of the incidents recently reported to area police agencies and the Lake County Sheriff's Office. This information was compiled from public records maintained by those agencies. The Police Log is published Thursdays in the Lake section. County Washington Street , 200 block, near Minneola, July 13. Officers took a report of vandalism. Hillsborough Drive , first block, near Mount Plymouth, July 13. Officers arrested a resident on a charge of trespassing.

A 42-year-old man who was naked and wielding a rifle at a Lansdowne motel is in critical condition after Baltimore County police officers shot him early Wednesday, police said. Two officers responded to the Beltway Motel in the 3600 block of Washington Boulevard about 3:40 a.m. after a 911 call reported a naked man was shooting a rifle toward the outside of his second-floor room. When they arrived, the man came out of the room still armed with the rifle. When officers ordered him to drop the weapon, the man did not comply and began to walk toward the officers, police said.

Following are some of the incidents recently reported to area police agencies and the Lake County Sheriff's Office. This information was compiled from public records maintained by those agencies. The Police Log is published Thursdays in the Lake section. County State Road 40 , 21000 block, near Astor, May 25. Officers took a report of vandalism. Oak Street , first block, near Yalaha, May 26. Officers took a report of a stolen vehicle. Roger Giles Road , 40000 block, near Umatilla, May 27. Officers arrested a resident on a charge of trespassing.

About a dozen black police officers protested outside a retirement dinner Sunday for a white officer at which a singer dressed in blackface had been hired to perform. ''For them to be members or former members of the Baltimore County police department, and for me as an officer to know that this is how they feel about blacks . . . I just think it's a shame,'' said Debbie Pridgen, a protester. A black officers' group, a former police chief of the 1,600-member department, the county police union and the county branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wrote letters protesting the performance.

SEATTLE - Two art students have filed claims, saying they were squirted with pepper spray by a county police officer while they were inside a car videotaping anti-World Trade Organization protests. The claim against King County, the first step in seeking damages before a lawsuit is filed, is the first of what could be many such claims related to last week's WTO demonstrations. County police have 60 days to respond. The claim was filed this week on behalf of Melissa Benton and Shauna Lin Balaski.

A cadet scheduled to graduate Friday from a police academy fatally shot his roommate while unloading his pistol at their apartment, authorities said. Andrew Noto, 23, told police he took the .40-caliber semi-automatic weapon from a bag Wednesday and was unloading it when it went off. Mark Dulle was hit in the head and pronounced dead at a hospital, said St. Louis County Police Chief Ronald Battelle. No charges were filed. Noto had just finished 16 weeks of training, including 68 hours of firearms instruction, at the county Police Academy.

NEW YORK -- The body of a man thought to be an airplane stowaway fell from the sky Tuesday night and landed in a Nassau County parking lot, police said. Witnesses called 911 about 6:30 p.m. after they heard a thud and saw the body in the lot. Nassau County police said the man probably had hidden in the landing gear of a jet approaching Kennedy Airport, then fell out when the wheels were deployed.

Acting on neighbors' complaints about drug traffic, Anne Arundel County police raided a home Thursday in Glen Burnie , where they seized drugs, a gun and drug paraphernalia, police said. Police said they found a little more than 56 grams of marijuana, a .20-gauge shotgun and drug paraphernalia at the residence in the 800 block of Bentwillow Drive. They charged Patrick Andrew Swain, 20, with possession of marijuana, possession with intent to distribute and possession drug paraphernalia, they said.

Five years after the bloody Liberty City riots caught them off guard, Miami's police departments have made major changes in their work force, their crowd control strategy and their patrols of low-income neighbor hoods.In May 1980, an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted five Dade County police officers in the beating death of Miami insurance salesman Arthur McDuffie, and the city's predominantly black Liberty City neighborhood exploded in violence.Eighteen people were killed, more than 400 were injured, 71 businesses were destroyed, 3,000 jobs were lost and there was $100 million in property damage.

Following are some of the incidents recently reported to area police agencies and the Lake County Sheriff's Office. This information was compiled from public records maintained by those agencies. The Police Log is published Thursdays in the Lake section. County Sandy Lane , 36000 block, near Grand Island, May 12. Officers arrested a resident on a charge of assault. Second Avenue , 40000 block, near Umatilla, May 12. Officers arrested a resident on a charge of narcotics possession.

Following are some of the incidents recently reported to area police agencies and the Lake County Sheriff's Office. This information was compiled from public records maintained by those agencies. The Police Log is published Thursdays in the Lake section. County Lonesome Pine Trail , first block, near Yalaha, April 13. Officers arrested a resident on a charge of assault. Water Oak Road , 56000 block, near Astor, April 14. Officers arrested a resident on a charge of trespassing.

Dade County police have cracked a prosperous drug ring that is suspected in three murders and may have penetrated the police department.Investigators said ring members acquired as much as $20 million in property from drug profits.An anonymous tip resulted in 12 arrests on federal drug charges, they said. One of those arrested was Raul Plasencia, who left Cuba in 1979 but amassed enough money to live in a $2.5 million home and buy matching red-and- white Mercedes-Benz cars for him and his wife.

POLK COUNTY---Polk County detectives are trying to identify two men who have been impersonating police in a Four Corners neighborhood, the Sheriff's Office said. On March 18, the two men walked door to door in the Legacy Park community displaying a gold six-sided star identifying themselves as "Polk County police." The men asked residents whether they were full-time residents or vacationers, what type of security systems they had and what homes in the area were unoccupied. The men drove a white Ford Taurus.